[xJones]

At the Andalus hotel five kilometres away, Dr Abdul Hashimi, the official overseeing their mission in Iraq, had issued the shocked group with an ultimatum: deploy to the "strategic sites" hand-picked by the government or leave immediately.

And so they left - except for O'Keefe and his significant mother, I suppose. After the war, we'll probably have to pay reparations for those anachronisms..

[Miss Marple]

I still think O'Keefe ha a deal to decamp at the last minute, leaving his mum behind.

I wonder what the terms of her will are.

[JavaTheHutt]

And so they left - except for O'Keefe and his significant mother, I suppose. After the war, we'll probably have to pay reparations for those anachronisms..

O'keefe was arrested in Turkey for traveling on a forged passport. He never even made it into Iraq, at least that was the last I heard.